Finding the Perfect Tree

For the 4th year we went to Boone and went to a choose and cut farm to pick out our Christmas tree. It was freezing!!

Kallie's first trip to the tree farm - all bundled up

Looking for the perfect tree.

Shortly after we started down a hill to look at the trees Davis slipped on some mud and did somersaults and face planted into some mud. He cried for a minute but he was okay. Matt said he looked like Braveheart, so Matt wanted to get a closeup.

Matt and the kids in front of the tree we picked out. In years past we have looked for a long time at trees and found that they begin to all look the same. This year it was freezing and they were kind of short for the most part, so the first one that we all agreed on we took.

Our yearly picture of the kids with one of the baby trees.

Our tree being bundled up for the trip.

Another close up of Davis's muddy face before we wipe it off.

Davis wearing Daddy's tobogan. Heading down the mountain was an adventure. The main road - 321 was closed because of a rock slide, so we put in "Detour" in our GPS and it sent us a way that included driving down a dirt road for about 8 miles and not being near civilization for the majority of the time. We did not have a signal on our cell phone until we got into Lenoir (about 15 minutes from our destination). It was a little nerve wracking and we were very thankful for the DVD player that kept the kids occupied. What is normally about an hour to an hour and a half trip took about 3 hours. We were encouraged, though, when we talked to some of our friends in Granite and they said the GPS took us the way they would have taken us. Anybody else have an interesting story about how their GPS took them?

I'll show you the tree all decorated in our home in a later post.